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Old 03-05-2012, 04:31 PM   #1
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Do they learn to use slide rules anymore?
I learned in about 1975. One had to be leery of those newfangled calculators.

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Old 03-05-2012, 05:51 PM   #2
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I learned in about 1975. One had to be leery of those newfangled calculators.

Mr G made us learn it. I just went on a search through my desk drawers (desk I've had my whole life) thinking it was in there but I didn't see it. There's still a bunch of my HS stuff in it though.
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Old 03-08-2012, 10:38 PM   #3
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I learned in about 1975. One had to be leery of those newfangled calculators.
That's true, and it's gotten worse.

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